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During the dot-com bubble you had a lot of companies that adopted 'digital super highway' company names. Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Digita
by kitsune_ 9y ago
During the dot-com bubble you had a lot of companies that adopted 'digital super highway' company names.
Some examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Digital_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Digital_Corporation
Norris Communications > E.Digital_Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Cameron Audio Networks > Broadcast.com
On top of that everyone and their mother founded companies that did 'something with the internet' and all those companies had a '.com', 'e' or something similar in their names.
Personally, I feel like the 'i' was mainly popularised with the iPod.
- TylerE 9y agoThe original gumdrop iMac's predated the iPod by 3 years and were EVERYWHERE.
- reaperducer 9y agoI remember people saying "Only eMachines can do the internet. That's why they have 'e' in their name, duh!" And remember "Dot Com Guy?" Some dude in Dallas who as a publicity stunt pledged to stay in his house for an entire year and just live off of stuff ordered online? Today, that's quaint. Back then the very notion of ordering a pizza on your computer was like flying cars.
- elmar 9y ago>Some dude in Dallas who as a publicity stunt pledged to stay in his house for an entire year and just live off of stuff ordered online? I remember that and someone already did this with Bitcoin, it's fantastic the way the history just repeats itself.
- liberte82 9y agoThe very first time I saw the idea of ordering something online, was when Sandra Bullock ordered pizza online in the 1995 movie The Net. I was just floored, like I couldn't grasp exactly how such a thing would work and how it could really be possible.
- perl4ever 9y agoThe web was just getting started, but there were lots of online services already, like Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, etc. so I kind of think people were ordering stuff online before websites existed - although my memory is hazy. Also, there were things in other countries besides the US - Minitel for instance?
- reaperducer 9y agoI was on AOL, and its predecessor Quantum Link. I also did CompuServe before that. About the only thing you could buy online were plane tickets. You could reserve a hotel online, but it still went through a travel agent's hands.